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Sept. 4, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome, my friends, America's Anchorman back at it.
On the air here on Friday at the EIB Network.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Should be a barn burner today, don't you think?
Man, there is hatred out there.
I mean, when you go through the sports drive-bys, there is hatred for Roger Goodell.
Even Snoop, no.
The one exception is Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg is a big Steelers fan.
They open the season Thursday night against the Patriots.
Snoop Dogg thinks if Brady's going to get away with deflating his balls, then all the homies token weed ought to be exempted.
Steelers have a running back that's not going to play because he's got a two-game suspension for token weed.
Snoop Dogg not happy.
Anyway.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I got the Trump Easter Sunday, uh, the golf round story too as well.
And we've got uh Trump thinking he's a victim of another gotcha here on these uh the names of uh Ali Ali Husani Kudzforce uh uh Skyhook and not knowing who all these people are will have uh this is it's it's I don't know, it's kind of classic, and it's got historical ramifications as well, which uh will remind you of.
The unemployment numbers are out.
I time Time magazine.
This is this is just this whole subject has has been a source of great irritation for me.
We now have, folks, 94 million Americans not working.
The labor force participation rate is at an all-time low.
Now the the labor force participation rate is a percentage of able-bodied people actually working, and it's it's in the what is it, the high 50s or the low 60s, the uh no, it's 62.6 percent, which is really low.
It's an historic low.
What it translates to real numbers is 94 million Americans not working, and yet they report the unemployment number 5.1 percent.
It's just it's an insult.
It's an insult to everybody's intelligence.
And here we have Time magazine.
They go through all of these numbers.
Very excitedly.
U.S. economy added 173,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate fell to 5.1%.
The total number of new non-farm payroll jobs is about 50,000 lower than economists had expected, but that was tempered by the fact that estimates for job gains in June and July were revised up.
Yay!
And then comes yet we are seeing no recovery in wage growth or labor force participation.
Well, duh.
Of course, you're not seeing any recovery in wage growth or labor force participation because we are not creating any net new jobs.
Because we do not have an economy, much less wages growing.
But the government says, the government says the unemployment rate's 5.1%.
We had an unemployment rate with George W. Bush toward the end of his regime at 4.7%.
That's statistically full.
When you hit four what.
I'm I'm sorry, I just saw a picture of Biden wearing a Yarmoke and I didn't know what it was.
I at first.
Um I'm sorry for those.
That's the kind of thing that makes me think I should turn the TV off.
It's the biggest Yarmiki I've ever seen is the problem.
I have no what in the world?
I thought maybe it was a bandage, you know, more brain surgery.
Excuse me, my friends.
I was deeply distracted.
Also, we have, you know, yesterday during the program, we uh we joined in progress the Trump, I guess you call it press conference following his signing of the pledge.
Man, you ought to read about that too.
Depends on where you go in the drive-bys.
He's either signed his death warrant, he's either signed away his legitimate chance at winning the Republican nomination, or he has uh pulled one over on the Republicans.
It's it's just I don't know, Hard to keep track.
It's a good thing I know what's right and what's wrong, and it's a good thing that this stuff does nothing but amuse me.
But boy, I can imagine people who don't know what they know, don't know what I know, and are not as confident that what they know is right.
Going through the drive-by could just be as confusing and depressing as anything you could do today.
That's why I am here.
Anyway, 94 million Americans not working.
It's all you need to know.
Everything else is there.
94 million Americans not working.
The adult population of the country is 210, 220 million for Christ, crying out loud, we're almost at half of the adult population not working.
Sorry, folks, you're not going to have economic growth.
You're not going to have wage growth, and you're not going to have private sector growth because the government's taking it all.
Bit by bit, little by little, bite by bite.
Time magazine, yet, yet we're seeing no recovery in wage growth or labor force participation.
Now, if you're a neophyte and an idiot and you see the unemployment rate going down from nearly 8% to 5.1%, you would believe that we're creating jobs left and right.
And if the labor force participation rate, meaning if a number of people not working goes up.
In fact, let me put it to you this way.
See how you would explain it.
The unemployment rates going up or going down, which is supposedly an improvement.
Three years ago, two years ago, unemployment was at 8%.
Today it's at 5.1%.
That's a huge improvement.
So why are more people not working today than there were three years ago?
How do you explain that?
How in the world can anybody without economic expertise?
And I doubt, you know, how many people really know what the labor force participation rate is anyway.
But here we have supposedly Time magazine.
I mean, these are the wizards of smart.
These are the people who've been to journalism school and they've been to college.
They've been to universities, many of them have graduate degrees.
They're supposed to know this stuff, and they're sitting there stymied.
They believe the unemployment rate, 5.1%, down from 8%.
They're perplexed.
And how come the labor force participation rate isn't any better?
How come more people aren't working?
Because the unemployment rate says that's exactly what happened.
No, it doesn't.
For the about the umpteenth time, the unemployment rate that is reported, which is categorized as youth three, does not count people who have been out of work for four years or more and have given up looking for a job.
Yet they're still out of work.
And they're still not working.
They've given up.
Their unemployment benefits may have expired, still out of work, but they're not counted as being out of work.
And people at Time Magazine don't know that.
It wouldn't be hard to get this story right, is the point.
Now I know there's a predisposition not to rain on Obama's parade.
Obama says there's an economic recovery going on, an economic boom, and of course the drive-by's have to be in support of that.
I just saw a graphic five percent of the gas stations in the country are selling gasoline at under two bucks a gallon.
I think it was five percent of the stations.
It might have been five percent of the I think it was five percent of the stations.
Five percent of something.
Anyway, that's great news for consumers there, but but that does not indicate a growing economy either.
A little bit of uh dichotomous situation.
Okay, let's let's get first, I think probably what everybody here wants some clarification on, or at least some analysis of or explanation of or discussion of Trump and his uh inability to identify certain names thrown at him on the radio.
Names of Al-Qaeda leaders, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian uh cuds force leaders and so forth.
And it's it's real simple here, folks.
And I guess I should address this to the Republican establishment and like-minded.
If you think this is going to harm Trump with his supporters, it won't.
It didn't hurt George W. Bush when he was unable to do the same thing.
It didn't hurt Ronaldus Magnus when he was unable to do the same thing.
But it specifically isn't gonna hurt Trump's people because Trump A had a fairly decent answer to.
So I don't matter these guys are all gonna be gone by the time I'm elected.
But anyway, that's not the point.
I I want to get some historical perspective.
Let's start here first off with what Trump said.
Um this was on the Hugh Hewitt show last night.
He's interviewing Trump.
And this guy Hewitt, by the way, is one of the CNN moderators.
He is the the uh conservative uh Republican moderator CNN is chosen.
Used to be in the Reagan White House.
He's a graduate of Harvard, solid guy, nice guy, no problem with Hugh Hewitt, has his own technique, has his own uh way of doing his program and vetting uh presidential candidates.
He asked the same questions later of Carly Fiorina, she was able to ace them all.
So now we got comparisons, by the way.
You know what?
You know what?
With a drive-by.
Why it is just like Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin, she didn't do the homework.
She didn't study.
She thought she can wing her way through it.
Look what happened to her.
They're saying that Trump is on the same path that Sarah Palin was on.
Not, of course, noting the profound differences.
Anyway, here's the question.
We have one of two.
At the debate, Hugh Hewitt telling Trump.
At the debate, I may bring up Nasralla being with Hezbollah and Al Jalani being with Al Nusra and Al Masri being with Hamas.
Do you think if I ask people to talk about those three things and the differences that that's a gotcha question?
Yes, I do.
I totally do.
I think it's ridiculous.
I'm a delegator.
I find great people.
I find absolutely great people, and I'll find them in our armed services.
And I find absolutely great people.
When you start throwing around names of people and where they live, and you know, give me their address.
I think it's ridiculous.
The names you just mentioned, they probably won't even be there in six months or a year.
So the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas does not matter to you yet, but it will.
It will when it's appropriate.
I will know more about it than you know, and believe me, it won't take me long.
It won't matter.
I will know far more than you know within 24 hours after I get the job.
And by the way, you might think that Trump is putting Hewitt down.
What he's actually saying is, I'm gonna have some experts in there.
We're gonna know everything there is to know about these guys in 24 hours after I'm elected.
We're gonna know everything we know.
We're gonna know everything we want to know.
We're gonna know everything about who they were because we're gonna destroy them in the first 24 hours that I'm there.
We're gonna get rid of them.
That's the that's the unspoken message that the Trump supporters will hear.
So let's go back to November 4th of 1999.
This is uh Boston on the educational station at WHDH TV.
Political correspondent Andy Hiller is interviewing former governor of Texas, George W. Bush.
Can you name the president of Chechnya?
No, can you?
Do you name the president of Taiwan?
Yeah, Lee.
Can you name the general who's in charge of the presentation?
Is this a 50 questions?
No, it's four questions of four leaders and four hotspots.
The new Pakistani general has just been elected.
Not elected, this guy took over office.
He appears he's gonna bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subject.
You can name him General.
I can't name the general.
General.
But see, Bush got away with it because he called it the subcontinent.
See, only the insiders in foreign policy know what the hell the subcontinent is.
You know what the subcontinent is, Snurtley?
You don't know what it is?
Are you kidding me?
You don't know what the subcontinent is.
This isn't my point.
I remember I'm gonna get back to Trump here in just a second.
But when this all happened, I remember Condoleezza Rice.
They sent her out for damage control after this, and she kept using the term.
The governor was clear in his understanding of the subcontinent and the issues of the subcontinent and what was happening in the subcontinent.
And I'm thinking, okay, I know what the subcontinent is, but nobody ever talks about it except in these circles.
This is sort of Like foreign policy lingo they're entitled to use, but you aren't.
Not that you're not entitled, they use and you don't.
It's one of those words or ways of describing a geographical place on the planet that lets you know these people are special.
They are talking about the subcontinent.
And only real insiders, it's like the way economists talk about their business.
They start throwing around these terms that most people don't know, and it lets you know that they are insiders and you aren't.
So Bush, using the word subcontinent, overcame all of the other things he wasn't able to answer because he knew what the subcontinent was.
That meant he was schooled and of the right mindset.
You still don't know what the subcontinent is?
Do you know what do you know what Sub-Sahara is?
What is it?
Right, right.
Sub-Saharan Africa is what?
No, no, no.
No, no.
Take a break here, be back.
So when you talk about sub-Saharan Africa, most people, when they hear the word sub, not all, but a lot of people think substitutes.
Okay, sub-Saharan is substituting what for the they don't get it.
Subcontinents, they're sub, rather than thinking of sub as in submarine, as in underneath.
So sub-Saharan Africa is about half of a continent, maybe a little bit more.
It's the green part.
It's everything below the Sahara Desert.
The Brits are responsible for this, folks.
The British, and then foreign policy diplomats, of course, trying to distinguish themselves and the plebes that make it the rest of the world.
Created all these times.
Subcontinent is essentially India.
You have Europe.
And it's just a blob up there.
And you have this thing, like a well, like a like an utter.
It's sticking down there from the continent, and they call, and it's India.
The subcontinent, so it's beneath the continent, so to make themselves out to be sophisticated.
Yes, of course, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the subcontinent.
And so when Bush started talking about the subcontinent, and that's in that answer, 1999, I knew it was okay.
And then Connellisa Rice went out doing damage control, and she kept talking about how she kept calling him the governor, because that's what he was at the time, governor.
The governor is clearly versed on the issues, ranging foreign one subcontinent.
And she never decided define what subcontinent was.
She never talked about any issues, just kept using the term.
So it was it was all okay.
This was even done to Reagan folks.
Reagan was running for president.
He and the other candidates were asked if they knew the names of various obscure heads of state.
These questions are never asked of Democrats, by the way.
Make note of this.
The question that Trump got, Democrats will never get those questions in the normal ebb and flow of things.
Hillary will never get them.
and Clinton will never get them, never did.
It's just they they are questions that are designed to further the narrative that Republicans are just not bright.
They're just not hip.
They're just, and when it works on one of them, then every other Republican's going to start getting the same treatment.
For example, if they can expose, say, a Sarah Palin who doesn't know an answer like this, let's start asking the others too.
So Reagan got questions like this.
...
Asked to name various obscure heads of state.
Reagan's answer was the best.
Reagan said, I'm paraphrasing, he said, it doesn't matter if I know their names, they need to know mine.
And that shut it down.
Trump saying doesn't matter.
They're not going to be there by the time I get inaugurated.
And even if they are, in 24 hours, I'm going to know more about these people because I'm going to go out and I'm going to find the wonks and I'm going to find the geeks.
I'm going to find the foreign policy experts who can tell me all about this.
I'm a delegator.
I'm going to tell them to deal with it.
We're going to deal with it once and for all.
Hamas, Hezbollah, what do you need to know?
They're terrorist organizations and they need to be wiped out.
That's all anybody needs to know.
And answers like that are going to resonate.
Trump's inability to name names or identify certain names, it's uh it's not it's not gonna hurt him with his supporters.
I'll tell you, do we have time here?
Is it we got you're splitting tone of it?
Yeah, we do.
One more theory on this, and we'll uh keep going after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Now, one of the names that Trump was given, and he knew who he was, um, he was not stumped by this.
The head honcho, the leader of the Cuds forces in Iran, that's the equivalent of their Delta, or Rangers, seals, you name it, special forces.
And this guy is an absolute bad guy.
His name is General Qasim Soleimani.
He heads the Cud's forces.
Obama just lifted all sanctions on Soleimani and the Kuds in this Iran deal.
Part of the original sanctions prevented Solomonni from traveling and doing nuclear-related business with, say, the Russians or anybody else.
It was recognized what a viciously dangerous bad guy he was, and the sanctions limited his movement if they abided by them.
Those sanctions now have been lifted, and this guy, Suleimani, is free to travel all over it.
Obama's, it's accidental.
We didn't intend for this to happen, lifted all sanctions on Solemanny and the Cuds in this Iran deal.
Soleimani is also the guy who sent all of the IEDs to Iraq that maimed and killed so many of our troops.
Qasem Soleimani.
He is, he didn't personally manufacture them, of course, but he made sure that they got to Iranian allies in Iraq and these roadside IEDs, and positioned elsewhere, were used specifically to kill Americans and Iranians.
So let me ask you, which is worse?
Not knowing his name off the top of your head, but knowing who he is.
Trump knew who he was, or is.
But what's worse here?
Not knowing the name of this guy off the top of your head or rewarding him with sanctions relief, as the Obama administration has done.
I tell you, folks, there's even a part of me that is I don't know if they're what disgusted.
I'm not sure if that's the right term.
But I what where we have to know the names of these thugs.
As though it's a giving them some sort of uh respect.
The only thing we need to know is, and if if if identifying their names helps is where they are, so they can be targets.
Every one of these groups, every one of these names, Al Zawahiri, everybody knows that Zawahiri inherited Al-Qaeda from bin Laden.
Eamon Al-Zawahiri, he's Egyptian.
He's been running Al Qaeda for 14 years, essentially, even before Bin Laden was captured and killed.
To the extent that these guys are known because they become targets fine and dandy, but I guarantee you, I think the American people are Sick and tired of these names.
They're sick and tired of hearing about these names.
They're sick and tired of nothing being done about these names.
If you ask me, I would go so far as to say that a majority of the American people want these names out of our lives.
The American people want something done about this.
We're not fighting a war on terror.
We're you know, this I haven't spoken much about this on this program because it's it's a bit, I think, in the weeds for a lot of people.
Have you by now seen the massive amount of refugees flooding all parts of Europe?
Now, why is that happening?
It's not immigration, it's not immigration or illegal immigration or what have you.
It is an invasion, and it is the direct result of things.
There are reasons why so many people are fleeing where they live and trying to get to what they consider to be better places.
And one of the reasons why, dare I say it, Barack Hussein Obama and American foreign policy.
This is what happens when the United States abdicates its role as leader of the free world.
This is what happens when a bunch of leftist idealists and theorists get in power and think the United States is the problem in the world.
The United States is the focus of evil in the world and its military.
The United States has run roughshod over the rest of the world, and the United States needs to be cut down to size.
And so we're going to get the United States out of the world.
We have no business being there.
It's none of our business.
What's over there is not ours.
We have no right to it, and we're going to clear out.
And we have.
We pulled out of Iraq without stabilizing it.
Obama inherited a stable Iraq.
He pulled out Ditto Afghanistan.
Now there's ISIS.
There was no ISIS before Obama, and there was not an ISIS for the first year or two of Obama.
Now we've got a civil war in Syria.
We have when Bush was in office, the left used to run around bleeding about Darfur and the Sudan and demanding that we do something about it.
How dare we look at these horrible pictures of suffering people and not do anything about it?
Well, now that we have abandoned all of these areas, where are the George Clooneys of the world all of a sudden demanding we do something when his president is the one essentially responsible for this because we are pulling out these places.
And we're leaving these unstable places more unstable and dangerous there in economic disaster area.
Look at what we did in supporting the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Look at the Middle East is on fire now.
Civil war in Syria, Benghazi, we even got touched by it.
Libya is an absolute hellhole and a mess.
Egypt is on the way.
And you cannot discuss this without bringing into it the European Union.
I don't know how many of you have traveled to Europe.
It used to be that you needed a passport.
If you went from France to Great Britain, you needed a passport when you entered a new country.
Every country you entered, you had to show your passport.
Well, you don't anymore.
The European Union trying to emulate the United States of America in this giant coalition of European nations under one government, which is also a disaster.
Hello, Greece.
There aren't any borders as such in that regard.
So if you fly into Paris, you can go anywhere after that in Europe without a passport.
Well, this is made to order for refugees.
All they have to do is storm one border, one outlying border On the perimeter, such as Italy or Greece, which is what they are doing.
All they've got to do is get past one border, and there's no stopping them.
And so now the same kind of idealist leftist head in the sand goofballs.
Opened their borders long ago.
Political correctness overwhelmed them.
They became possessed with the same kind of guilt that leftists in this country have.
And so now there is no Great Britain in terms of cultural identity.
France is on the way to losing its.
And all of these European nations are, because all they have to do is cross one border, these refugees, these migrants.
And that isn't that hard if you're doing it in Greece or Italy, where it's controls are not all that hot to trot to begin with.
And once you're there, you can flood any nation in the world in Europe that you want, which they're doing, and you have these leftist socialist leaders in all these countries, and we have no right to say that we are any better than they are.
We have no right to say that our culture is superior to these.
We have no right.
We have no, and so they're being overrun.
And they're being overrun for a host of reasons.
Economic, some of it is strategic, some of it's being promoted by militant Islamist leaders who are on the path of creating a giant caliphate in Europe.
It's serious, serious stuff.
And the one thing, the one thing that has protected the United States in this kind of thing is these two oceans.
It's very hard for these refugees to flood this country compared to flooding Europe because they've got to get over an ocean one way or the other, unless they end up in Central America.
That's our one vulnerability, and who is not doing anything about that per se?
That's right, the Obama administration.
So what is needed in things like this is absolute policy solutions and people capable of coming up with them.
Instead, one of the things that's happening right now all over Washington, dweeb after dweeb after dweeb, is dreaming of being the guy that takes Trump out.
All kinds of people are trying to figure out a way to do it, to expose Trump for the fraud that he is.
Meanwhile, our current administration, our current leadership, has put this country at greater risk than we have been in since World War II, folks.
All right, now one thing is happening, folks, in the European Union, the all of these, all of these wimps, these European leaders are now demanding that the internal European Union states put their borders back up again to stop these refugees.
Yeah, you put your borders up, you put you put your checkpoints back up.
Even Germany is ordering countries like Italy and Greece to put up border controls now.
They got rid of it all in the creation of the European Union.
Stop and think, folks, no passport.
Once you get past Italy or Greece, you're free to go anywhere that is the European Union.
Show your passport one time.
Well, you know how easy it is to get to you.
You swarm the border, you mob the border.
Look how easy it is to get through our southern border.
And Obama, by the way, is taking care of the oceans problem.
Obama's fixing Obama is importing Syrian refugees.
I don't know how many people are aware of this.
But we are taking a certain number of Syrian and other Middle Eastern refugees in record numbers now by presidential directive.
They are being allowed entry into the we're bringing them here.
We're actually flying them here ourselves, and then we are positioning them all over the world when we get them here.
We're choosing where they live.
I think in the case of Syrian refugees, there's a number floating around my head of 300,000.
I don't know over what time period that is, but 70 to 300, it's a huge number, and it's ongoing.
So Obama is fixing the ocean's problem.
Now, if these if if these refugees, see, we're told they're fleeing war, just like the children coming up from Il Davador in Guatemala.
Coming through uh Meiko on the trains.
We're told, oh, they're fleeing their war-torn regions of their homelands and so forth.
Well, uh, if these refugees are just fleeing war, why aren't they happy to stop and live in Turkey?
And if they get to Europe, why aren't they happy to stop and live in Greece?
No, no, no, no.
This is not just about escaping war.
They're human beings.
They want the good life.
They want the good life in Germany, they want the good life in Sweden, they want the good life in Denmark.
Because that's where all the benefits are, including Denmark, you can smoke dope on the street if you want to, I think.
Isn't it Denmark?
We're legalized dope all over the place.
Amsterdam, yeah, Amsterdam.
But this is where they're headed.
They want the good life, good life meaning big welfare benefits.
And they're getting there.
A better life that generations of hardworking Europeans have built up is now being swarmed over by refugees from war-torn regions that happen to be in places around the world the United States has abandoned in terms of foreign policy.
Over the last, shall we say, five years.
Took Obama a couple years to get around to it, had to do the stimulus first and Obama kid, then all this other stuff began.
Here's um at least always try to take a call a first hour open line Friday.
Lisa Salem, Virginia, thank you.
You're up.
How are you doing?
Hi, Russ.
How are you doing?
Good.
Um, I wanted to ask your opinion about Donald Trump.
Um, when he first announced his intention to run for president, uh, I admit at first I thought, well, this is not gonna last long, he's gonna fizzle out.
But after hearing him speak a few times, I was really on board with this guy because I thought he's really he got me fired up because I thought this is somebody who's willing to really tell it like it is, and he's gonna take a stand, and he's not gonna let people bully him the way conservatives have been bullied for so long, I feel like.
But after kind of seeing the way he's responding to people who disagree with him or criticize him, I feel like that's pretty much a continuation of what we've had for the past seven years.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you had me until that.
Who have you what do you mean a continuation of what we had the last seven years?
Well, because if you look at Obama, he has no tolerance for people who disagree with him, and I I think his attitude has done nothing but divide the country.
And I just worry, and I like Trump, don't get me wrong, but I just worry that with his his attitude and his rhetoric that I'm afraid that well, give me an example.
Are you like when he called when he said, Hewitt, he's a third-rate radio host.
He's a third rate.
You mean that kind of insult?
Um, well, with Megan Kelly and Yeah, okay.
You're talking about the personal insults of people that criticize him.
He launches back, uh, she's a bimbo.
I don't have time.
Do you feel like I'm sorry I didn't mean interrupt, but do you feel like he's gonna be the kind of person who's willing to work with people on both sides to get things done?
Uh I think we need to let them.
Not if he thinks they're losers, he's not gonna work with people he thinks is losers are wrong just to just for the sake of it.
Ah, Lisa, uh, hang on if you have time.
If you don't, no biggie, but I gotta go here.
I'm suspicious.
Do I think Trump will work well with the other side and both sides to get things done?
Trump's never said that's what he's gonna do.
Nobody supporting Trump supports Trump for that reason, right?
Trump's gonna cream the other side.
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